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Hours before President Clinton was to address the centrist Democratic Leadership Council -- a group he helped found, once led and used as a springboard to the White House -- the group's current chairman, lame-duck Oklahoma Rep. Dave McCurdy, hammered Clinton for apparently drifting leftward. "While Bill Clinton has the mind of a new Democrat, he retains the heart of an old Democrat," McCurdy told compatriots. "The result is an administration that has pursued elements of a moderate and liberal agenda at the same time, to the great confusion of the American people." (McCurdy, who got drubbed in a Senate...
...that the Republican mandate will self-destruct and allow him to keep pushing his old agenda. But reality intruded last week, when the President was reminded that he will not be so lucky as to face only the flat-earth Helmsians of the G.O.P., but also must contend with centrist hard bargainers like Senate Republican leader Bob Dole. When the Senate Republican leader wanted to make Administration officials jump, he merely had to fire off a few faxes. Sent while the President was vacationing in Hawaii, the faxes amounted to ransom notes, lists of demands to be met in return...
...build a "contract" with moderate, middle class Democrats, the party's leading centrist group released their alternative to the GOP's congressional battle plan, vowing "hand-to-hand combat" to capture the legislative and political agenda. The Democratic Leadership Council's blueprint is obviously akin to the GOP "Contract with America," calling for deep budget cuts and a nearly complete reworking of federal housing and job training programs. But it also calls for health care reform and money for job training. And it cuts $75 billion in annual federal subsidies to agriculture, aerospace companies, the oil and gas industry...
House Democrats re-elected Rep. Richard Gephardtof Missouri as their leader today, swatting away a centrist challenge from North Carolina Rep. Charlie Rose by a 150-58 vote. Gephardt, who ran unsuccessfully for president in 1988, will return to the post he's held since 1989 -- this time as head of a minority that, after today's vote, may swerve hard to the left. "Our mission is to represent workers, middle income families, the poor families of our country," Gephardt told reporters after the secret ballot. "I also look forward to winning the House back in 1996." His right-hand...
...favorite for minority leader? "Because of self-interest," says a conservative Democratic Senator who supports him. "Both Chris and Tom are too liberal for my taste, but I see Daschle as more rollable. I figure I have a better chance of influencing Tom, and many of my centrist friends think...